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The key to finding the right clothing fit is knowing your child’s measurements.

Tips for Taking Body Measurements

• For the most accurate results, take your child’s measurements over their underwear or other light-weight, closely-fitting clothing.
• Use a plastic dress-maker’s measuring tape.
• Baby and Toddler clothing typically use height and weight measurements only.

Height: For children that can stand, ask your child to stand as straight and as flat against a wall as they can. Using a book or ruler as a guide, make a mark on the wall under the guide. Use a metal tape measure to measure from the floor to the mark. For babies, measure length from the top of their head to the bottom of their feet.

Weight: Have your child stand in the center of a digital scale for best results. To find out how much your baby weighs, first weigh yourself holding your baby and then subtract your alone weight from it.

Chest / Bust: Have your child stand straight. Wrap the tape measure around them at the fullest part of chest/bust under armpits. Pull the tape measure snug, but not tight, and find where the long end of the tape meets the beginning of the tape.

Waist: Have your child stand straight. Wrap the tape measure around them at the narrowest part of their waist over their underwear. Pull the tape measure snug, but not tight, and find where the long end of the tape meets the beginning of the tape.

Hip: Have your child stand straight. Wrap the tape measure around them at the fullest part of seat/hip over their underwear. Pull the tape measure snug, but not tight, and find where the long end of the tape meets the beginning of the tape.

Inseam: Have your child stand straight with their legs slightly apart. Using the tape measure, measure from the bottom of your child’s ankle to just below the crotch. Alternately, measure the inner leg of a pair of well-fitting pants.

Neck: Gently wrap a cloth tape measure around the base of your child’s neck, where the collar would typically be. Pull the tape measure snug, but not tight, and find where the long end of the tape meets the beginning of the tape.

Sleeve Length: Have your child stand straight and bend their right arm so their palm faces the floor. Place the beginning of your tape measure at the top of their shoulder and measure down to where the sleeve should fall – typically at the wrist bone.